Just came across it today. Looks very ambitious and about time Adobe had some competition.
No subscription
$50 to buy, that is correct..$50
Free updates
Affinity....make it available on PC as well!!
Professional Colour, Compatibility, and Output
Professional Colour
True end-to-end CMYK for professional workflows
RGB, LAB, CMYK and Greyscale colour models
ICC colour management
Colour spaces maintained in supported file formats
Switch colour modes any time, use colours from different models
Open Files from Other Design Apps
Open PDFs, Adobe® Illustrator files containing a PDF stream, and Freehand files
Edit objects in their native form–shapes, text, images
SVG and EPS supported for vector designs
Illustrator objects, groups and effects maintained where possible
Open and Save EPS and SVG
Open, edit, and output industry standard EPS and SVG files
Beautiful Custom Colour Palettes
Use colours and palettes based on all the available colour models
Automatically create palettes based on document colours
Display palettes created in other apps using Apple System Colour Palettes
Full Save and Export List
Adobe® Photoshop® PSD
PDF (can be viewed and printed cross platform and opened in Adobe® Illustrator)
EPS
SVG
TIFF
PNG
JPG
GIF
Affinity design suite common file format
16-bits per Channel Support
16-bits per channel modes for RGB, Greyscale and LAB colour
The deepest, richest colour for all your effects, adjustments and edits
Available in full to all Affinity Designer users on all supported hardware and OS versions
Slices
Automatic scaling or resampling of mixed discipline artwork as required for output
Advanced Lanczos 3 resampling available in addition to Bicubic, Bilinear and Nearest Neighbour methods
Full PSD Support
Accurate opening/saving of Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files
Maintain layers, groups, gradients, blend modes, paths, masks and more
Save PDFs
Save designs as PDF for sharing
Save CMYK PDFs for pro printing
Save PDFs for opening in Adobe® Illustrator
Smart Colour Picker
Accurately pick up colour using a magnifier over any part of your display, in or outside Affinity apps
Grab colour in the source colour model including CMYK and device-independent LAB colour
Full Open and Import List
Adobe® Photoshop® PSD
Adobe® Illustrator AI (containing PDF stream)
PDF
Adobe® FreeHand (versions 10 onwards)
EPS
SVG
PNG
TIFF
JPG
GIF
Affinity design suite common file format
Retina @2x Output for Web, UI and Game Design
Automatically output standard and retina sizes in one go
Retina versions are automatically given an @2x file name
Create complete icon or sprite sets within one document
Prototype whole web pages or create individual web graphics
Export Settings Presets
Create your own export presets for consistency
Use popular presets that are supplied with Affinity Designer
Efficient File Format
Affinity Designer’s own file format is compact and extremely quick to open and save
Affinity Designer files will be fully editable in upcoming Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher titles
Affinity Designer is so efficient it can open Adobe® Photoshop® PSDs faster than Adobe® Photoshop®
